Timestamp to current date and time?

[Paul-Reed]

@igrowing

Seems I took this warning too seriously.

Moment is very good at what it does, but as Julian has pointed out - it's a true heavyweight!

node-red-contrib-moment code size = 7MB
node-red-contrib-simpletime code size = 40KB
node-red-dashboard code size = 3.7MB
node-red-contrib-ramp-thermostat code size = 72KB

[igrowing]

Thank you, Nick.
I ended up with simple function:

var now = new Date().toLocaleString("en-GB");
return {payload: now};

[TotallyInformation]

@Paul-Reed

Moment is very good at what it does, but as Julian has pointed out - it's a true heavyweight!

node-red-contrib-moment code size = 7MB

I've never been known as a lightweight that's for sure!

[ajaybnl]

Thank you!

[vlturner]

So I read this and couldn't seem to get it to populate this correctly.

msg.payload = {state:true,timestamp:1579362774639}

So the inbound message is a boolean 0 or 1 value without the "state:" for a ui_statetrail node.

I keep losing either the boolean or the timestamp.

Any suggestion here?

[zenofmud]

@vlturner

msg.payload = {state:true,timestamp:1579362774639}

try msg.payload = {"state":true,"timestamp":1579362774639}

[vlturner]

Tried that I need the timestamp to be now() and the state as the inbound boolean value

[drmibell]

How about

msg.payload = {"state":msg.payload,"timestamp":Date.now()}

?

[TotallyInformation]

Or, as I mentioned, if you need the timestamp in seconds rather than ms:

msg.payload = { 
    "state": msg.payload, 
    "timestamp": ( Date.now() / 1000 ) 
}

[syoma755]

@igrowing

How to format $now() to human readable and local timezone format?

Use $now('[D01].[M01].[Y0001] [H01]:[m01]:[s01]', '+0200'). Where +0200 is an offset of your time zone. This will result in something like this:
"06.07.2020 21:07:53"

Taken from here: Date/Time functions · JSONata